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I don't think the prompt was reasonable. Nits are the eggs of headlice. Expecting the LLM to guess they meant superficial issues, rather than just spelling that
by olddustytrail 2y ago
I don't think the prompt was reasonable. Nits are the eggs of headlice. Expecting the LLM to guess they meant superficial issues, rather than just spelling that out, is a bit weird.
It's like saying "don't comment on elephants" when you mean don't comment on the obvious stuff.
- whitfin 2y agoYeah, even the title here says "nitpicky". I'm not sure if they tried "nitpicks" instead of "nits", but I don't know why you wouldn't...
- tayo42 2y agoDo llms struggle with other homonyms?
- Eisenstein 2y agoThey can, but I think the parent is saying that when you are crafting an instruction for someone or something to follow, you should be as direct and as clear as possible in order to remove the need for the actor to have to intuit a decision instead of act on certainty. I would start with something like: 'Avoid writing comments which only concern stylistic issues or which only contain criticisms considered pedantic or trivial.'